I bought a modern thing

[Dorset]

Fucking Black Friday. I have wanted one of they iPad doohickeys for yonks, I play around with looping guitar stuff on my proper ‘purer but it’s a pain in the bottom, I need Loopy Pro and that only works on iOS stuff. I checked YouTube and everyone said don’t buy an iPad cos new ones are coming - fuck those guys, what do they know? That nice Mr Bezos offered me a shiny new iPad Air with 14% off so of course I bought one. Oooh, why didn’t anyone tell me how good these things are? You bastards have been enjoying these things for fucking ages without telling me!

 

[Sneeky]

Now you can be proper tosser and have “sent from my iPad” on the bottom of messages…















Sent from my IPad.

 

[Dorset]

Now you can be proper tosser and have “sent from my iPad” on the bottom of messages…















Sent from my IPad.

Yeah, I want that! But, I DID send my first post from my iPad and it didn't say that! Bastard thing, it's gonna be a love-hate relationship, fucking gestures - 3 fingers, pinches, backwards pinches???, diagonal swipes - I expect I will not be using a lot of those things.

 

[Dorset]

I am slowly joining the 21st century! This week I used my phone to pay for stuff in shops, like a modern person! I have no idea how to send text messages or call anyone not on my contacts list, I usually give my phone to the nice young men or women in the shops to access things like loyalty cards, luckily there was one available for my first phone payment and he saved me from just waving my device around like a wanker and told me how Google wallet worked. This morning my pool cleaning robot wanted me to login - what the fuck, just clean the fucking pool.

It's funny when young people tell me they are 'experts' at tech, OK, they know how to use the fucking stuff but we wrote the fucking code.

 

[Yid]

Mate, I've not carried cash for about 30 years and a bank card for the last 5...

Initially I used my bank app, and now Google pay exclusively...

I even managed to set up my Garmin running watch to have mobile payment on it for when I was out and about running...

I did see a proper cunt the other day tho, wearing a VR headset walking down the fucking road...

I guess the augmented reality thing could be fun, but it was a busy as fuck road and there were hundreds of school kids about... You're asking to get clapped by one of them or a fucking car... Or me because you're being a cunt...!

 

[Dorset]

Mate, I've not carried cash for about 30 years and a bank card for the last 5...

Initially I used my bank app, and now Google pay exclusively...

I even managed to set up my Garmin running watch to have mobile payment on it for when I was out and about running...

I did see a proper cunt the other day tho, wearing a VR headset walking down the fucking road...

I guess the augmented reality thing could be fun, but it was a busy as fuck road and there were hundreds of school kids about... You're asking to get clapped by one of them or a fucking car... Or me because you're being a cunt...!

I've got a Samsung watch (got it free with Mrs D's new phone last year) but I don't like it, it's too heavy and the fucker burned my wrist, took weeks to heal up. So I've gone back to my old Garmin Vivo summfink or other, it's actually better than the Samsung because it does a constant heart rate check - which at this time of year is important as my HR can drop really low in the heat and that's a bad thing! The stats are better on the Garmin as well. My 'normal' resting heart rate is about 42 , drop that by 10 and I get a bit fucking woozy. A couple of weeks ago I was taking some self-prescribed anti-histamines and the watch kept telling me I had a 32 HR, ooh fucking errr, I looked up the meds and found that they can cause life threatening arrhythmia in cunts with bradycardia like me. Whoops!

Anyway, what were we talking about? Oh, yeah, I don't use the Samsung watch and my Garmin doesn't do Google Pay, I could set up Garmin Pay but I can't be arsed having all those different accounts. I always have my phone with me so its all good.

 

[Havocc]

Paying for a beer with my watch feels futuristic. Wonder if they considering phasing out actual cash one day, especially coins. Must cost a fortune to make them

 

[Yid]

I've got a Samsung watch (got it free with Mrs D's new phone last year) but I don't like it, it's too heavy and the fucker burned my wrist, took weeks to heal up. So I've gone back to my old Garmin Vivo summfink or other, it's actually better than the Samsung because it does a constant heart rate check - which at this time of year is important as my HR can drop really low in the heat and that's a bad thing! The stats are better on the Garmin as well. My 'normal' resting heart rate is about 42 , drop that by 10 and I get a bit fucking woozy. A couple of weeks ago I was taking some self-prescribed anti-histamines and the watch kept telling me I had a 32 HR, ooh fucking errr, I looked up the meds and found that they can cause life threatening arrhythmia in cunts with bradycardia like me. Whoops!

Anyway, what were we talking about? Oh, yeah, I don't use the Samsung watch and my Garmin doesn't do Google Pay, I could set up Garmin Pay but I can't be arsed having all those different accounts. I always have my phone with me so its all good.

I got you pal...

I think your Vivoactive can do smart payments. I used to have a bit niftier one that was a half way house between a smart watch (like the Google watch I'm paying for but who's battery won't last more than 20hrs and is utter shite) and a fitness device.

It wouldn't let me use my bank (Barclays) card at the time so I signed up for Curve account.

Basically this account was a bridge to my bank and allowed me to make the contactless payments that would simply charge back to my card...

No fees, no hassle... Just a piece of piss.